The New York Archdiocese is inviting youngsters back to a Greenwich Village parish schoolhouse it shuttered last year – at $25,000 a pop.

Now, working-class parents who had paid about $2,500 to send their children to the former St. Joseph’s School on Washington Place are calling its conversion to a private academy targeting well-heeled New Yorkers this fall the height of hypocrisy.

“It’s a slap in the face,” said Bryan Delaney, a bar owner whose eighth-grade son was among 139 students bumped from the parish school when it closed.

“It’s getting away completely from what I thought [the Catholic Church’s] mission was – to educate people who don’t have that kind of money.”

The hefty tuition at the new Academy of St. Joseph, which dips to $17,000 for half-day pre-kindergarten, would put its cost on par with such private heavyweights as Brearley, Dalton, Horace Mann and Spence.

It’s also as much as four times that of most archdiocese-operated high schools and many privately run congregational Catholic schools in the city, such as Cathedral or Rice.

“That’s more than a salary for most people. It’s disgusting,” said former St. Joseph’s parent Aziza Marulanda, a bond-rating consultant whose sixth-grade son now attends a Bronx public school. “At the end of the day, the church is about business.”

The academy will be run by the archdiocese, not a religious order, and serve students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.

Archdiocese spokeswoman Jacqueline Lofaro rejected suggestions that the church has turned its back on the working class of Greenwich Village or had plotted to use the vacant schoolhouse to court upper-crust clientele.

She said the idea for the new academy, whose stature she likened to the $30,000-a-year Convent of the Sacred Heart School on the Upper East Side, evolved after the parish school was shuttered in June as part of Archbishop Edward Cardinal Egan’s reorganization plan.

“We continue to serve all people. It’s the mission of the Archdiocese of New York,” Lofaro said. “That mission is historic. That we have one private school does not in any way violate that mission to educate and serve everybody.

“It’s not as if we’re going exclusively into the private-school business,” she added, noting that while dwindling enrollment and financial woes have closed several city parish schools in recent years, the archdiocese has added schools in upstate counties.

The academy is the brainchild of Catherine Hickey, the archdiocesan secretary for education. St. Joseph’s intends to blend classic humanities and Catholic tradition with the latest in technology.

Every classroom will have Internet access, students will learn Italian, French and Latin, art curriculum will include architecture and ancient Jewish songs, and history lessons will draw from the Old Testament.

The academy will open to pre-K, kindergarten and first-graders this fall and aim to add one grade each year. Registration began this week.